HAWKES BAY NOTES.
We have had delightful weather for the last month.
Docking the lambs is now nearly over, and the percentages on the whole are good. Fat sheep are likely to open here at 13s, a month off the shears.
At a meeting at Wimbledon to arrange for a man to do the landing of the stores and ship the wool for the settlers, Mr Bennett was appointed, at 8s per ton for landing. This does not altogether suit a lot of the people who consider it too much ; but on the whole I do not think that it could be in better hands, and after all is said and done there is not much in it.
A branch of the Farmers’ Union has been formed here. A sad accident occurred here last Saturday night,,, when Mr John Herbert, an old settler, was killed through the limb of a matai tree falling on his house and killing him in bed.
Shearing started lately without any of the labour troubles so frequent on the other side.
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Southern Cross, Volume 9, Issue 30, 26 October 1901, Page 9
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